Salmon Lake Airport
Z81 · Salmon Lake, Alaska · Nome County · map
Salmon Lake Airport is a public-use airport in Salmon Lake, Alaska, 509 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 15/33, is 2,000 feet of gravel.
The airport
- Codes
- FAA Z81
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Elevation
- 509 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- unattended
- On the chart
- Nome sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 17E
- In the FAA's files since
- July 1958
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 15/33 | 2,000 × 55 ft | Gravel, good |
- Runway 15: brush on the approach
- Runway 33: road on the approach
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) | 122.9 |
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Aircraft registered in Salmon Lake from the FAA register
No aircraft on the register list Salmon Lake, AK as the owner's town.
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records
No NTSB accident or incident records name this airport.
Nearby within 30 nautical miles
The FAA's remarks as written in the airport file
- Estabd prior to 1959.
- Slopes 40 feet uphill southeast to northwest.
- Runway end rocky.
- Cones and threshold panels.
- Cones and threshold panels.
- Soft when wet.
- Nmrs 6 in rocks.
- Runway maintenance NA. runway condition unmnt, recommended visual insp bfr use.
- High trrn all quads.
Facts from the FAA's airport file effective October 1, 2026, written out in plain English; weather from the National Weather Service's aviation weather service; registered aircraft from the FAA register as of October 5, 2026; accidents from the NTSB's public database. Owners are shown only when they are an organisation; no person is named. Check the official sources before a flight: this page is for understanding an airport, not for planning one.